About: Medani Bhandari Research Associate | Contributor
Email: mbhandari@e4CDp.org | Personal Website
Expertise:
Environmental Governance, Climate Change, Green Economy, Sustainability etc.
Education:
PhD, Sociology, Syracuse University (2012); MA, Sustainable development, Brandies University (2004).

Profile
Medani Bhandari has spent most of his career focusing on the conservation of nature and natural resources, developing along the way expertise in global and international environmental politics, environmental institutions and governance, forest governance from the grassroots to the national level with a special focus on participatory management, climate change policy and implementation, environmental justice, and land cover and land use change. Dr. Bhandari also serves as faculty and Deputy Program Director of the Sustainability Studies Department at Akamai University, where he teaches International Relations, and International Environmental Policies and Sustainability. His additional teaching and research focus areas include sociology; environmental, political and organizational sociology; social change; social networks; global environment policy and sustainable development; environmental sociology and natural resource sociology. Dr. Bhandari is also open to contribute to core curriculum including introductory courses, environmental studies, social theory, social statistics, or social research methods, and organizational and political sociology.